C. Cybele Raver

Deputy Provost, Professor of Applied Psychology

C. Cybele Raver serves as Deputy Provost for NYU. She also maintains an active program of research, examining the mechanisms that support children's self-regulation in the contexts of poverty and social policy. Raver and her research team currently conduct CSRP, a federally-funded RCT intervention and she regularly advises local and federal government agencies and foundations on promoting school readiness among low-income children. See our new articles in American Psychologist downloadable from the list, below. Raver has received several prestigious awards from organizations such as the American Psychological Association and the William T. Grant Foundation as well as support from the Spencer Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Raver earned her PhD in developmental psychology from Yale University.

Roy, A.L., Raver, C.C., Masucci, M.D. & DeJoseph, M.L. (in press). If they focus on giving us a chance in life we can actually do something with the world: Poverty, inequality, and youths' sociopolitical engagement. Developmental Psychology.

Blair, C., Raver, C., & Berry, D. J. (2014). Two approaches to estimating the effect of parenting on the development of executive function in early childhood. Developmental Psychology, 50(2), 554-565. DOI: 10.1037/a0033647

Raver, C. C. (2014). Childcare as a work support, a child-focused intervention, and a job. In Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and their Children (pp. 179-190). Taylor and Francis. DOI: 10.4324/9781410609755

Raver, C. C. (2003). Does work pay, psychologically as well as economically? The effects of employment on depressive symptoms and parenting among low-income families. Child Development, 74(6), 1720-1736. (view)